Cay Hasselmann

When I started working outside of Germany 30 years ago I first got confronted with the typical stereotypes picked up from war movies, the way way certain Germans behave on the beach and the ever present German evil mastermind. Later when I started to work in projects between UK and German companies I got in … Continue reading Cultural Differences →

A lot of work that we do as architects is based on our judgement of interacting with stakeholders and therefore we try estimate the level of their confidence in terms of priority.The problem of being confident is  that any person confident will rate their answers as 99 % true, while those without confidence will only … Continue reading Over-confidence, Over-Precision and Over-placement →

Just to be clear I am usually only publishing 1-2 articles per week as it helps me to stay current and use my head a bit more. If however you want to be famous the key is to structure your content. Usually you will have to have 5-8 headlines for each article and tag them … Continue reading If you want to become a world famous architect use text and AI bots. →

Often as architects we have the tendency to over complicate solutions as the first solution often either sounds far too simple or it looks wrong. A typical example is the Clustering, the tendency to erroneously consider the inevitable “streaks” or “clusters” arising in small samples from random distributions to be non-random. Using this illusion you … Continue reading Simplicity →

We all are told many times that Information is key and often we see that it is our ability as architects to produce the kind of relevant and not widely known information that we paid for. Usually we are also paid to keep information in a small group so that it can be used against … Continue reading Insider information trading →

The pillar are nothing special, they are just the laws or pillars of thought going back to Plato and Aristoteles.  The pillars are the law of identity, the law of contradiction and the law of excluding the middle. All constructs and projects that have been successful in test of time have followed these laws. Additionally … Continue reading Three pillars of Architecture →

In Business Architecture we are often confronted with the Loyalty factor. Every party, company, organisation or social group wants loyal followers, ideally die-hard followers that will you regardless. This kind of loyalty has so many benefits as it will make it so much easier to fulfil the goal of your organisation regardless of mistakes or … Continue reading Loyalty Architecture →

Today I wanted to ask if any professionals know of a any good paying contracts that may not yet be advertised, as I am looking for my next contract. I can start straight away. Related Post On Stupidity – Outcome Driven Application Ar… The importance of analysis Sainthood in architecture False consensus effect

It is sometimes amazing that well paid architects are the last people to pay license fees for software and then arguing that the licenses should be free anyhow as all software companies make far than enough profits anyhow. Often I also hear that because of 5 projects that failed partial because the used a certain … Continue reading The missing logic with architects →

Most architects are proud that they are STEM and therefore driven by logic, especially in terms of science and other hand this is an area that violates logic on a nearly daily basis. The main area is that since is often poor at the difference between causation and correlation. Examples are: When a country’s debt … Continue reading Being STEM does not mean you are good with logic →

As an architect you are often part of the company internal circus of budgeting with OPEX, CAPEX, ROI, TCO and similar. So this is why we are quickly being influenced by budgeting when we look a the most cost efficient way of an architecture. The problem with taking our lesson from the budgeting process is … Continue reading Understanding costs →

Endorsement or selective exposure to those of the scientific quarter is key for our work if we want to accomplish anything. Actually you can be the best architect or the best in any other field, but without endorsement no one will use anything from you, unless you produce a commodity item. The reason for this … Continue reading Lost without endorsement →